January 30th, 2017
Category: Judiciary and Legal Issues
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-judicial-appointments-20170130-story.html The Cloning of Judges The inception of the Trump administration when there are a hundred vacancies on the lower federal courts presages unedifying controversies about ‘pop issues.’ Our contemporary Senators have little interest in permanent things: enforcement of horizontal and vertical separation of powers, protection of procedural due process , and predictability in the […]
November 23rd, 2016
Category: Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right
Introduction of Senate President Thomas “Mike” Miller, Library Company of the Baltimore Bar, November 7, 2016 We have in the course of our lecture series never before honored a practising legislator, a species usually held in as much esteem as the proprietors of sausage factories. I do not know Senator Miller well, but he like […]
November 7th, 2016
Category: Criminal Justice, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-consent-decree-20161106-story.html Comments to United States District Court on Baltimore Police Consent Decree To: Baltimore.consent.decree@USdoj.gov I make these comments only because I have been a public critic of this ‘Consent Decree’ and do not wish silence to be taken as acquiescence. I shall not appear at the April 6 hearing, unauthorized by the Federal […]
September 18th, 2016
Category: Culture Wars, Drugs, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-deplorables-defense-20160914-story.html
August 18th, 2016
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Welfare and Other Social
Gleichschaltung–American Style by George W. Liebmann Gleiichschaltung was the process by which the new Nazi regime in Germany subordinated to itself every independent organism in the German state–the Prussian police (1932, under the Papen government), the political parties, federal states, labor unions, universities and Protestant churches (1933), the Army (1934). The underlying purpose was set […]
August 16th, 2016
Category: Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
1920 Revisited? by George W. Liebmann Many Americans are bemused by the success of a candidate who has mastered the fascist speaking techniques described by the sociologist David Riesman in 1942: “The violence and daring of the verbal onslaughts exercise a great appeal over the imagination of lower middle-class folk who live insipid and anxious […]
August 16th, 2016
Category: Culture Wars, Drugs, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics
The Court and the Candidates by George W. Liebmann How did we wind up with two presidential candidates who evoke widespread if not universal contempt? A surprising number of the root causes can be laid at the door of the Supreme Court.. The crux of its influence on American culture is found in the so-called […]
April 15th, 2016
Category: Environment/Transportation Policy, Legal/Regulatory/Judicial, State & Municipal Services/Privatization, State and Local Politics
Regulation Magazone, Spring 2016 http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2016/4/regulation-v39n1-8-updated.pdf
February 21st, 2016
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
A Statue that Must Remain by George W. Liebmann Baltimore Sun, February 20, 2016 In its editorial supporting the removal of the memorial to Chief Justice Taney in Mount Vernon Place, the Sun referred to the Dred Scott decision as Justice Taney’s “best known achievement in life” as though the monument was […]
December 14th, 2015
Category: Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-liebmann-20151213-story.html
